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Dot 5 Web Hosting Review - $4.95 per Month

Scott — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:57:36 +0000

Dot 5 Web hosting offers webhosting solutions for business owners as well as individuals for as low as $3.95 per month. Dot 5 includes all of the typical services you would expect with a domain registrar, but do so at an unbelievable price. Whether you are just getting started with your website or you already have [...]

Getting Out of the Office and Working from Home

Scott — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:32:59 +0000

I am in my mid 20s and began working in the corporate world at a very well known world wide corporation when I graduated at 22. Although I’m still very young, I knew from the first day that the corporate world was not for me. No one likes being at their job there, and if [...]

Top 10 Essential Wordpress Plugins for Bloggers

Scott — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:56:44 +0000

Having run multiple blogs, I’ve had the opportunity to try out quite a few plugins for different functionalities. Below are the ones I’ve used and really find usefull. I encourage you to play around with each of these. Feedburner Feedsmith - this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to [...]

Adsense in Feedburner RSS | Monetize Your Feed

Scott — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:46:32 +0000

Google has recently announced via their blog that Adsense ads will soon be an option in your Feedburner RSS feed. To bloggers, this is great news as many people are choosing to receive updates via RSS readers such as Google Reader. Increases in RSS subscribers is a good sign that the content you offer on [...]

Organic Search | How to Get Multiple Top 10 Listings

Scott — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:21:39 +0000

Organic search can be a powerful source of traffic and brand awareness for your blog if thought about strategically. If you are unfamiliar with the term organic search, an official definition is: Synonym for “Natural Search.” Traffic or search results that are a product of a Search Engine’s algorithm, rather than paid advertisements. If your in [...]

StartLogic Web Hosting Solutions

Scott — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:43:26 +0000

StartLogic has been around for a few years and offers some great web hosting solutions at a very affordable price. Their ProLogic level costs $5.95 a month and includes nearly everything you will need whether you are doing a simple blog website, or a professional level website. Below, I’ve put together a list of a [...]

Hostgator Web Hosting and Domain Name Registration Review

Scott — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:44:26 +0000

Choosing a web hosting provider when registering your domain name can be a tough choice. I’ve suggested before that you check out BlueHost.com, but there are many options to choose from so I am going to go through a series of reviews to help you make your decision. First on the list is HostGator.com. Host Gator [...]

How to Write the Perfect Blog Post

Scott — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:50:43 +0000

The first and foremost goal of any blog should be to entice visitors into reading your content. With the introduction of RSS feeds, faster internet speeds, and an abundance of blogs on any topic you can imagine, visitors are spending less time actually reading what you write and are skimming it for points that catch [...]

Secrets of Adsense | How to Make Money with Google Adsense

Scott — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:56:01 +0000

Google Adsense is one of the most popular forms of monetizing a blog or website. The vast number and variety of publishers in the Google network makes it easy to start making money quickly with ads directly relevant to your content. I’ve been using Adsense for quite sometime and have a created a steady 2nd [...]

How to Make Money by Blogging

Scott — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:18:32 +0000

I’ve been running a few blogs for the past few years mostly looking for quick ways to make some easy money. In some cases people are able to quit their full-time jobs and blogging instead. The first thing to realize is that your not going to be able to start making thousands of dollars and [...]